For most capitalist countries around the world, 1932 was an extremely dangerous year. Counting from 1929, the global economic crisis had already lasted three years.
During the same period, unemployment in the United States and Germany soared beyond 20 percent. In the United States, it reached around 25 percent, meaning that the country's poorest thirty to forty million people had been struggling bitterly for nearly three years.
The United States was fortunate to be vast and rich in resources; the lower classes could still rely on relief and begging to meet their basic needs. Otherwise, a social crisis would most likely have erupted there.
By contrast, the situation in European countries was far worse, especially in Central and Eastern European countries. Since last winter, Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire had suffered several large-scale clashes in succession, while smaller protests and violent incidents were simply too numerous to count.
Germany, Berlin.
Berlin in 1932 was Germany's most populous city and the center of its economy. It was also the city that suffered the heaviest losses in this economic crisis.
As of now, Berlin's officially announced unemployed population had exceeded 300,000. The vast numbers of jobless people, combined with the activities of the Labor Party and the National Party, had turned all of Berlin into a "city of chaos."
Neukölln was a district of Berlin. In the sixteenth century, it had been a village that developed south of Berlin. As Berlin's industry grew and its population gathered, Neukölln continued to expand.
On the eve of World War I, Neukölln officially became one of Berlin's administrative districts.
During the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century, Neukölln attracted large numbers of workers and Eastern European immigrants with cheap housing, becoming one of Berlin's most famous concentrations of low-income residents.
After the economic crisis erupted,